This blog is written by Mike Hamlyn, Faculty Director for Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Computing Engineering and Technology at Staffordshire University. It's for me to point to items of interest that I find, and for staff and students to share their comments

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Cheating has always been around in schools and universities - but the internet is making it far worse | Marcel Berlins | Comment is free | The Guardian

A short comment piece from The Guardian on cheating and plagiarism. Surely the solution is to design cheating out of the assessment. Testing knowledge and understanding outside of a closed book exam is asking for trouble. The higher order learning outcomes - enquiry, analysis, application- can be assessed in assignments that demand indidual creativity without sole recourse to Wikipedia et al.